News from November 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and senior member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee with jurisdiction over the U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - As the upcoming holiday travel season approaches travelers are reminded to take extra care to ensure they have not packed firearms in their carry-on bags before leaving home. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has led the nation in the number of guns detected at checkpoints for five of the last six years.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a draft risk evaluation for Pigment Violet 29 (PV29), which is one of the first ten chemicals undergoing risk evaluation under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: The existing FAA Airworthiness Directive (AD) identifies existing flight crew procedures to be used in those circumstances. The FAA and Boeing continue to evaluate the need for software and/or other design changes to the aircraft including operating procedures and training as we learn more from the ongoing investigation. The FAA is not doing a safety probe separate from the ongoing Lion Air Accident investigation of which we, the NTSB and Indonesian officials are a part.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing awards of up to $7.5 million to support the research and development of innovative designs that will strengthen the resilience of the U.S. power grid. The selected projects will lead to the next generation of transformers that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - David Gatewood, 44, has been sentenced to 390 months imprisonment for two armed business robberies. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: As Democrats prepare to take the House Majority in January, three Democratic Committee leaders, whose committees have jurisdiction over climate change, announced today that their committees will hold a series of hearings over a two-day period early next year to assess the effects of climate change and the need for action.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owner and operator of a Gloucester County bulk mailing company today admitted defrauding the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) of more than $1.5 million in postage, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man whose DNA was found on a handgun was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was indicted today in federal court in Boston for distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jonathan Mark Oldale, age 55, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to federal charges of production and possession of child pornography, arising from Oldale secretly filming children using hidden cameras in the bathrooms of his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging two Hampton Roads men with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing awards of up to $7.5 million to support the research and development of innovative designs that will strengthen the resilience of the U.S. power grid. The selected projects will lead to the next generation of transformers that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: Investigation Began When Camera Discovered in Bathroom of Gymnastics Facility; Produced Images of Dozens of Children Using Hidden Cameras in the Bathrooms of His Home.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a draft risk evaluation for Pigment Violet 29 (PV29), which is one of the first ten chemicals undergoing risk evaluation under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Giordano Jackson, 39, of Teesto, Ariz., was convicted by a jury on all charges, including first degree murder, two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, and kidnapping. Jackson will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa in February 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeremiah D. Edwards, 33, Madison, Wisconsin, and Kanasha L. Woods, 24, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Madison on Nov. 12, 2018 with the armed robbery of a business and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of that crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pled guilty yesterday to embezzling over $80,000 of his brother’s Veteran’s benefits. The case was investigated by the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs Office of Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release for receiving images of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
